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Prompt idea - Wasp Waist
Dec. 15th, 2018 05:58 pmBecause this is more of a prompt idea than an actual story, I decided to post this here, an older post from my Tumblr.
I have an idea for a story, but I don’t know if I’ll do anything with it.
My sister was visiting mom and I earlier today, and while we were having tea, she and mom were talking about clothing sizes, and how messed up they can be, like how a large can be only a medium, or a medium can turn out to be small. I remembered how we have a specific term, which is called “Wasp waisted.” Short of the long, it’s for girls with thin long legs, and a just so sized waist for lack of a better word.
I then remembered a nature documentary with Sir David Attenborough, where he talked about different kinds of parasites, and a kind of wasp was among them. It lays its egg on a golden orb spider, and the larva lives off of the spider’s food, while injecting chemicals into the spider’s body. When the larva reaches a specific stage, it injects a specific venom into the spider, driving it crazy so it spins a cocoon for the larvae, before the larvae sucks it dry, and then climbs into the cocoon. When it comes back out of the cocoon after a certain amount of time, it has grown into a fully adult wasp.
It gave me a mental image of a series of women, who turn out to be a kind of parasitic, alien wasps. They prey on women who don’t have a problem with their bodies, be they small or large sized, but there is naturally a lot of frustration with finding the right kind of clothes. I have yet to find out how they would claim their victim, but it would involve some kind of larvae, maybe disguised as jewelry or some other seemingly harmless thing.
but yeah, writing this idea down while I remember it.
I have an idea for a story, but I don’t know if I’ll do anything with it.
My sister was visiting mom and I earlier today, and while we were having tea, she and mom were talking about clothing sizes, and how messed up they can be, like how a large can be only a medium, or a medium can turn out to be small. I remembered how we have a specific term, which is called “Wasp waisted.” Short of the long, it’s for girls with thin long legs, and a just so sized waist for lack of a better word.
I then remembered a nature documentary with Sir David Attenborough, where he talked about different kinds of parasites, and a kind of wasp was among them. It lays its egg on a golden orb spider, and the larva lives off of the spider’s food, while injecting chemicals into the spider’s body. When the larva reaches a specific stage, it injects a specific venom into the spider, driving it crazy so it spins a cocoon for the larvae, before the larvae sucks it dry, and then climbs into the cocoon. When it comes back out of the cocoon after a certain amount of time, it has grown into a fully adult wasp.
It gave me a mental image of a series of women, who turn out to be a kind of parasitic, alien wasps. They prey on women who don’t have a problem with their bodies, be they small or large sized, but there is naturally a lot of frustration with finding the right kind of clothes. I have yet to find out how they would claim their victim, but it would involve some kind of larvae, maybe disguised as jewelry or some other seemingly harmless thing.
but yeah, writing this idea down while I remember it.
